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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES SALTER FARMER, OF SALFORD, AND HERBERT L. STOREY AND ISAAC H. STOREY, OF LANCASTER,'ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LINOLEUM OR OTHER FLOOR-CLOTHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,925, dated November 21, 1893. Application filed April 19, 1893. Serial No. 471,035- (No model.) Patented in England May 16 1892,1T- 9,222.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMEs SALTER FAR- MER, residing at Salford, and HERBERT LUSH- ING'roN STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY,

residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lan- .ing date May 16, 1892,) of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in machines employed in the manufacture of What are known as solid color floor-cloths,

such 'as linoleum, kamptulicon, corticine, and the like, in which the pigment or coloring matter is incorporated with the materials of which the fabric is composed, instead of be- 7 ing merely printed upon the surface of such fabric. 7

Our improvements consist chiefly in the construction and arrangement of machinery for cutting out the solid color pieces and placing them in their proper positions automatically and in one-continuous operation upon the foundation of woven material to which they are secured. 7

In a two color machine constructed according to our improvements we employ two pairs of driven rollers supported in adjustable bear ings and each pair gearedtogether and to the other pair by box wheels and other suitable gearing to insure correct register. Each roller has formed upon its periphery a series of recesses or apertures of a diamond or other shape according to the pattern desired, and when a pair of such rollers are geared together the recesses upon one come opposite thecorrespondingly shaped solid or projecting surfaces of the other roller.

In operation a sheet of the combined materials and of the first color is fed between the first pair of rollers and is by them cut into diamond or other shaped pieces which are carried round in the recesses in each roller until by means of pushers suitably arranged the color pieces from one roller are expelled and deposited upon the prepared surface of a web of the woven foundation, which is traveling through the machine at the same surface speed as that of the rollers. The pieces from the other roller are also expelled by pushers and are then returned to the mixing mill and subsequently re-rolled, or the pieces may be otherwise utilized in any convenient manner.

In like manner the pieces from the second color are cut out from another sheet of com bined materials by the second pair of rollers,

and in their turn deposited upon the web beside the first 'color pieces and in correct register according to the'pa'ttern required. The color pieces adhere to the web of woven fabric the surface of which may be prepared with an adhesive substance and the fabric is pressed and finished in the usual manner.

In order that our invention may be fully end View, partly in section, of the, sam'efand Fig. 3 is a sectional view on a larger scale, of one pair of the color rollers.

In the drawings,a represents the main frame and b 1)- two pairs of standards in each of which is fitted a pair of color rollers c d and c d; e is the driving shaft of the machine supported in bearings, not shown, but carried by the frame a; on this shaft are secured two wheels which mesh with wormsff" and through these is driven a pair of bevel wheels 9 g which gear into and drive bevel wheels 71. h keyed upon the axles d d of the lower color rollers (1 cl respectively on the other ends of these two roller axles are secured spur wheels '6 which gear into box wheels j one on the axle c c of each of the top rollers c c and by which the latter are driven.

Each of the color rollers is provided with recesses 70 in its-periphery of suitable shape according to the pattern desired. The recesses in one roller come opposite correspondingly number of projecting studs Z, see Fig. 3. These drums are supported in links m which are mounted on the shafts of the color rollers within which they are respectively placed.

The axles of the top color rollers c c are carried in blocks n fitted in slideways b in thestandards b b and adjustable in the vertical direction by screws 0'; the lower rollers d d are carried in blocks n also fitted in the slideways b and made adjustable vertically by means of wedges p which pass through slots in the standards I) h under the blocks n which rest upon them. These wedges are moved and adjusted by means of locknuts g on screwed studs q secured in the standards b b.

A batch or roll rof the first pigment or coloring matter incorporated with the materials of which the fabric is to be composed is shown on a roller r. The material is fed into the nip of the color rollers 0 cl where it is pressed into the recesses 70 in each roller by the action of asolid portion of one roller coming opposite a recess in the other one. As the rollers rotate the material from the roller 01 is pushed out of its recesses 70 on to the foundation by the studs Z in the drum Z. The drums Z are caused to rotate by the studs Z one, of .which is always engaged with one or other of the holes in the shell of its color roller; or in place of the drums with studs any other suitable means for expelling the material may be employed.

The foundation fabric 8 is held extended transversely by hooks, pins or grippers on traveling bands in any convenient manner and it receives the same speed as that given to the surface of the color rollers; the second pair of color rollers is driven by suitable gearing and brought into correct register with the first pair by means of the box wheels on the shaft e. The material is expelled from the recesses 70 in the top roller in the manner described and is carried away to the necessary machinery for future use bya traveling apron 00 supported at one end on a roller y as shown in Fig. 3. detached pieces of material r in position reaches the second color roller d material of the second color i from the batch t on the roller t is deposited upon it into the spaces between the pieces r thus completing the After the fabric 3 with the in what manner the same is to be performed,

we declare that what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

1. In combination a pair of rollers having recesses in their peripheries, the recesses in one roller being in line with solid parts of the other, ejecting means carried by the rollers and means for receiving the ejected pieces, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a pair of rollers having recessed peripheries and an. ejecting device within the same consisting of studded drums arranged eccentrically of said rollers, the studs of said drums engaging the recesses in the rollers and serving as the means for rotatin g said drums, substantially as described.

3. In combination with two pairs of rollers having recessed peripheries, the recesses of which alternate in position with the solid parts of the rollers, a shaft e, driving the same, ejecting devices within the same, feed rolls for each pair of rollers and receiving means for the ejected pieces,substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

J. SALTER FARMER. H. L. STOREY. ISAAC H. STOREY.

Witnesses to the signature of James Salter Farmer:

S. .D. GILLETT, 17 St. Anns Square, Manchester.

HERBEBT ROWLAND ABBEY. Witnesses to the signatures of Herbert Lushington Storey and Isaac Henry Storey:

WM. H. LORD, Clerk to llfessrs. Swaz'nson Son dc Roper, S0-

Zz'ct'tors, Lancaster.

Y W. HENRY LORD, Solicitors L'Zerk, Lancaster 

